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What keeps you from using Redweek Exchange?
mike1536 wrote:Owners of RCI Points weeks cannot deposit their unit into the RedWeek exchange system. That represents another segment of timeshare units that are unavailable for exchange.
this is not true.
Underneath the RCI Points system is a resort week that you CHOSE to put into RCI Points. You do not have to do that, you can use your own week in any way you wish.
Vicki Y.
Your system is way too complicated, All the other exchange companies (RCI, Maui Trading Places & Platinum Interchange) are much easy to use. I thought I would try your Company, have not been able to located an exchange and WILL NOT EVER USE red week again. Done it, been there, and WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN. THERE ARE OTHER COMPANIES WE CAN USE! When I'am looking for an exchange, that's all I want to see, not rentals, or units for sell.
Curt H.
Last edited by curth17 on Aug 20, 2010 03:14 PM
curth17 wrote:There are certainly numerous exchange companies, but I respectfully but strongly disagree with your particular assessment / comparision.Your system is way too complicated, All the other exchange companies (RCI, Maui Trading Places & Platinum Interchange) are much easy to use. I thought I would try your Company, have not been able to located an exchange and WILL NOT EVER USE red week again. Done it, been there, and WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN. THERE ARE OTHER COMPANIES WE CAN USE! When I'am looking for an exchange, that's all I want to see, not rentals, or units for sell.
The RedWeek exchange system is simple, straightforward and very transparent, particularly when compared to the hoops, hurdles, hidden valuations (and ever changing fees) of the likes of RCI.
That said, the RedWeek exchange program (in my personal opinion) provides inconsistent valuations and has a limited exchange inventory. However, the RedWeek program is less than a very few years old, so it may well evolve into a bigger and better system.
KC
Last edited by ken1193 on Aug 24, 2010 12:13 PM
curth17 wrote:Bad guess. I don't have ANY affiliation of ANY kind with RedWeek (and never did). I am merely a RedWeek member who occasionally contributes to these forums (including my honest observations above on the shortcomings I perceive in the RedWeek exchange system, based upon my own personal experiences and observations).Let me guess!!! you're either an employee or family of redweek.
Courteous people can disagree without being disagreeable. I respectfully disagreed with you; consider some reciprocity.
In any event, don't confuse my open contempt for RCI as meaning that I am some kind of "cheerleader" for RedWeek; it's simply not so.
KC
Last edited by ken1193 on Aug 25, 2010 06:47 AM
I have 2 weeks banked in Red Week and have a hard time finding what's available, let alone when and where.
1. You have to go through every potential location, one by one, to try and find a match for the dates you're looking for.
2. I'd much rather have a web site like TPI, ANYONE can go to the site and search. They don't even have to have an account!
3. You chose the earliest check in date, and every AVAILABE exchange unit comes up. EVERY unit in the system for that date going forward!
4. Scroll down and click on a likely exchange to get the details and call to book it.
I can check 20 different Red Week resorts and never find any exchanges even remotely close the the 3-4 month window I want to travel.
WHAT A HASSLE!
J R Stewart
J r S.
jrstewart wrote:I have 2 weeks banked in Red Week and have a hard time finding what's available, let alone when and where.1. You have to go through every potential location, one by one, to try and find a match for the dates you're looking for.
2. I'd much rather have a web site like TPI, ANYONE can go to the site and search. They don't even have to have an account!
3. You chose the earliest check in date, and every AVAILABE exchange unit comes up. EVERY unit in the system for that date going forward!
4. Scroll down and click on a likely exchange to get the details and call to book it.
I can check 20 different Red Week resorts and never find any exchanges even remotely close the the 3-4 month window I want to travel.
WHAT A HASSLE!
J R Stewart
You do realize that RedWeek's exchange program has been absorbed by Dial-an-Exchange, (daelive.com), don't you?
Lance C.
lancec13 wrote:jrstewart wrote:I have 2 weeks banked in Red Week and have a hard time finding what's available, let alone when and where.1. You have to go through every potential location, one by one, to try and find a match for the dates you're looking for.
2. I'd much rather have a web site like TPI, ANYONE can go to the site and search. They don't even have to have an account!
3. You chose the earliest check in date, and every AVAILABE exchange unit comes up. EVERY unit in the system for that date going forward!
4. Scroll down and click on a likely exchange to get the details and call to book it.
I can check 20 different Red Week resorts and never find any exchanges even remotely close the the 3-4 month window I want to travel.
WHAT A HASSLE!
J R Stewart
You do realize that RedWeek's exchange program has been absorbed by Dial-an-Exchange, (daelive.com), don't you?
J r S.
Last edited by jrstewart on Feb 28, 2011 02:32 PM
Sorry, apparently my message didn't go through.
Dial was running the RedWeek exchange program, before taking it over.
Yes, I'm aware of the change. That's why I used weeks instead of points.
Go to the the TPI website:
http://www.tradingplaces.com/exchange/online-search-exchange
Please let me know, if you still think RedWeek is easy to use.
J R Stewart
J r S.
Apparently they weren't in the exchange business before that either, because it's exactly the same.
Some of us don't want to buy or rent a week.
We joined and deposited our weeks to exchange.
Which doesn't change the fact, RedWeek has the poorest search engine of all the exchanges.
RIGHT???
J R Stewart
J r S.
jrstewart wrote:Apparently they weren't in the exchange business before that either, because it's exactly the same.Some of us don't want to buy or rent a week.
We joined and deposited our weeks to exchange.
Which doesn't change the fact, RedWeek has the poorest search engine of all the exchanges.
RIGHT???
J R Stewart
Well, I'm totally at a loss as to how to answer you. I keep saying that RedWeek is no longer in the exchange business. If you deposited your week into RedWeek's system before November 1, 2010, then that week is probably in Dial-an-Exchange's system.
My best that I can suggest to you is to go to the stickie at the in the Timeshare Exchanges forum that discusses RedWeek being absorbed by Dial-an-Exchange.
Or, check out this forum thread on TUG:
http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134680
Lance C.
I did put the 2 weeks in long before the Dial take over, but they actually don't show up on Dial, only Red Week. So, all processing still goes through RedWeek.
I asked RedWeek about transferring them to dial. They said they remain in their system, and I had to go through them.
J R Stewart
J r S.
